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Study Manager for planning and layout applications > Use NX tools to manage study

Use Teamcenter Manufacturing Access while designing a fixture

When you perform fixture planning using NX, you need to create, search, and load studies.

  • Administrator

See the Teamcenter Manufacturing Access Deployment documentation. Your administrator completes the following data setup steps:

Deploy your environment

Install and configure NX, Teamcenter, and Teamcenter Manufacturing Access.

Convert legacy studies

Convert studies created before using Teamcenter Manufacturing Access using a workflow.

  • Fixture planner

The fixture planner completes the following steps in NX:

Start NX in managed mode

See the NX documentation.

Search for a collaboration context using Study Manager, and review its studies.

Note The Study Manager is available to NX Fixture Planner users with Teamcenter Manufacturing Access configured.

(Optional) Create a study

If after searching, you do not find a suitable study, create a study using the Study Manager.

Load a study using the Study Manager.

Use NX Fixture Planner to begin designing a fixture.

See the NX Fixture Planner documentation.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.xid2214895/xid1417172 · retrieved 2026-07-11